♡ being back in the kitchen with yummy (we made buko pandan cake and chocolate chip blondies last month) ♡ going on a road trip with some lovely people and getting away from the city for a little bit ♡ finishing another book about the inner workings of a company (has anybody thought about fictionalizing the veryyy interesting world of local…

♡ finishing four new books in the past month ♡ getting to write for the future of young pinays campaign by edukasyon.ph x investing in women ♡ having my aura read by a complete stranger ♡ lots of new music ♡ catching up with friends—impromptu and otherwise ♡ crying over broadway musicals (#wicked15 and that brilliant boy who sang with sara…

♡ making progress on a project we’ve been working on since late may ♡ spending time away from the city with friends I can talk to for hours on end ♡ finishing a good tv series (so far, really liked: atypical season 2 and american vandal seasons 1 and 2) ♡ finally releasing our newsletter into the wild (subscribe if you want to read…

words from mae’s “Our Love is a Painted Picture” A year ago, today, I left my 12-year job in digital publishing, where I was working for a website I considered my life’s work. I lived and breathed our website for the better part of that decade. That meant the brand was basically my lifeblood. When I was suddenly without a…

♡ one month of peter kavinsky, lol (week 4 going strong, and I have not run out of things to watch or read about noah centineo hahaha) ♡ the thrill of having someone thank you for something you wrote about them—never gets old ♡ feeling kilig about a song, a movie, a story (lots to obsess about this past month!) ♡…

♡ finding time to reconnect with old friends and realizing that some things are bigger than past hurts ♡ snagging a hot-ticket item online ♡ going on an elyu food trip—even if it’s just through writing about it ♡ booking a writing gig that’s close to my heart ♡ finishing up a consultancy and learning a thing or two from…

♡ revisiting my favorite albums because of that modern-day chain letter in the form of facebook tagging (only one of the people I tagged continued the tagging haha) ♡ going back to sgd coffee and areté ♡ getting my pink bubble wrap pouch with new mascara 😛 ♡ making intergalactic cupcakes for a mystical gathering ♡ making a mess in…

♡ making chocolate chip cookies even in this heat ♡ finding old photos in the digital wormhole that is photobucket ♡ spending an afternoon with friends in new places ♡ the p2p that saves me from having to spend P400 on a ride going home from makati O_o ♡ friends you can drag to your rdo so you can attend…

♡ watching all my kacheapan shows, hahaha ♡ spending time with mira ♡ being a tourist in manila ♡ getting dolled up to help out a friend with her passion project ♡ celebrating birthdays with yummy food and lengthy conversations ♡ catching lany in concert ♡ learning to trust my intuition and trying out tarot reading (just for myself and…

I’m guilty of not exploring my hometown enough, making me a tourist even in my own country. A few weeks back, I made plans with some friends to go on a Manila Day. We plotted out 3 spots we wanted to check out: Calle Wright, a newly-opened home-turned-gallery in Malate; Destileria Limtuaco in Intramuros, a museum of the longest-running distillery…